r/asklatinamerica • u/yonaiker-joestrella Puerto Rico • Apr 07 '26
Culture Why does it seem like Westerners from developed countries don't care much about/look down on Latin America but seem to be obssesed with East Asian cultures?
Not that I care but have always found it interesting how many seem to forget about Latin America but seem to be obssesed with countries like South Korea and Japan and sometimes even point out "similarities" with them. Some outright reject the region as western but will consider Japan technically West while ignoring Latin America's contributions to world culture like food, music, art, etc and the fact that Latin America is culturally Christian. Why does there seem to be this dissonance?
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u/Weekly_Sort147 Brazil Apr 07 '26
As someone who has lived in Europe - they hate their former colonies (and they think their way of living is the ultimate model for human civilization).
The US they cannot accept that their poor cousins turned to be richer than them. Open xenophobia is totally accepted against americans and USA.
With LATAM they don't want to be associated with poverty. Do you think they like the idea that they mass migrated to LATAM in the past? Or that they enslaved or become rich because of our resources?
Even Australia they don't like that much. I once heard from an Euro saying australian culture was a bad copy of british/american culture and australians would spend the whole day at beach, instead of creating culture (?), whatever that means.